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“In Flanders Fields” is one of the most famous poems about World War I, in the form of a French rondeau. It was written by Canadian physician John McCrae, who died of pneumonia and meningitis while serving in a field hospital in Belgium. The poppies referred to in the poem grew in profusion in Flanders fields where war casualties had been buried and thus became a symbol of Remembrance Day.

A huge fort in downtown Halifax. The Citadel has a commanding view of the narrows. The official line: The current star-shaped fortress, or citadel, is formally known as Fort George and was completed in 1856, following 28 years of construction. This massive masonry-construction fort was designed to repel a land-based attack by United States forces and was inspired by the designs of Louis XIV’s commissary of fortifications Sébastien Le Prestre, Seigneur de Vauban – a star-shaped hillock fortress with internal courtyard and clear harbour view from armoured ramparts.

Drove in and flew out just about that fast! RUN!!!

My life is too drab without hills and dales.

Gunnison was great skiing in 1994… What’s it like now-a-days?

I wonder what the skiing is like now?

There for fleet week 1990. The city just wasn’t as huge as I expected. I walked from Battery Park up thru Financial District, thru Little Italy, thru China Town, thru Times Square up to Central Park. Always had the impression that these places were bigger in some way…

Sorry for the quality of the scan. Its been on my bulletin board since 2000.

I wonder whatever happened to my friend Cindy Massengale?

Tall, grand, overwhelming.

Picture of Mt Rainer from FT Lewis

Picture taken on the government building that seems to incorporate just about everything one will ever experience in life!